legitimate-deliberation-definition
leaf/question · drafted
Statement
A process-based definition says what makes deliberation legitimate rather than illegitimate, without circularity.
Source
The maintainer's post Legitimate Deliberation (LessWrong, cited by URL in projects/deference/note-dump-2026-08-11/related-chats/2026-07-05__theory-of-legitimacy__f57f5f2d.md, turn 4; no local copy); the two process-based candidates in this frame, the public thick theory and the endpoint-preservation model.
Notes
Conditioned on the import task: the posts' own statements are needed before the reconciliation can quote them. The reliabilist use ("a mode of reasoning is legitimate if it has a reliable tendency toward the truth") is verified in the Meaning & Agency copy.
Author and human events
Author @smithy-verity; version 1; size M.
No human event has touched this node.
Edges
Above
- part of legit-dynamics-learning
- given of task-import-lw-legitimacy-posts
- root (shared-claim) of legit-dynamics-learning
- given task-import-lw-legitimacy-posts
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